An India-led project found that differences in the Moon's surface temperature vary widely, depending on location (poles versus equator), orientation (facing the Sun or not), and angle (diagonal crater ...

As Earth's ever-present celestial companion, the moon exerts a constant influence on our planet, and its disappearance would ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of ...

While Apollo landed near the moon’s equator, Chandrayaan touched down at a latitude of 69 degrees north—well into the moon’s previously unexplored polar regions. Scientists expected the ...

The moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfectly flat plane around our planet’s equator. Rather, its orbit is slightly cockeyed, tilted at an angle of 5.145 degrees. That means that sometimes ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully made a soft touchdown near an ancient volcanic feature on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning.